Beyond Selidor

That was really interesting, and definitely not too much detail! I had no idea that the US and UK departments were working together to acquire books like that, but it makes a lot of sense.

This may also explain why a recent Australian book that I read (in the UK edition) had anglicised spelling (Australian English for the most part uses UK spelling), but weird Americanisms in the vocabulary ('parking lot', 'elevator' and so on) — potentially the consequence of a poorly-done anglicisation of a book that was originally published and edited in the US.